This year I am working on turning over a new leaf, I’m doingmy boiler maintenance when 85 degrees out, instead of 25 degrees out.

Thanks to Matthus’s wisdom and NEPA, I built mine up from a pile of parts,making it look like the picture as I had never seen a assembled and in action.

Although running to settings and like a clock, I was hoping for a bit more output,just figured that my too old and drafty.

Reading through a type written Axeman manual it says that the site door should be closingtight when running. Mine is about ½” away during operation. Looking through my othermanual versions it makes no mention of being closed, just the distance of the door.What does this mean?

The 1/4" bolt with two nuts that holds the observation door should be adjusted to allow the cover to hang freely (do NOT secure the cover tightly) so that at 'idle', the door will hang vertically about 1/4" open all around the frame between the door and boiler. When the boiler calls for heat, the vacuum the blower fan creates sucks the door tightly to the opening and air is drawn through the base, up through the fire and then the boiler, then out to exhaust (fly ash drops out through cove and back to the ash bucket. Soooooooo, if you are one of those guys who likes everything up tight and out of sight, you lose! It confounds most folks who see it in operation, however it is brilliant in it's simplicity. I have never had anyone say anything nice about the appearance of an AA, BUT as an efficient bulletproof BTU beast, it is a winner...as you know. Most people think they are popcorn makers..oh well, let them buy Propane, Oil and NG.......or keep stokin' those 15 cords into the OWB!

Hello Whistlenut,Thanks, I just loosened the nut, flipped the switch, the doorsucked closed, turned off and its about a ¼ away!!!!!!!!!!And thankfully, I’m not one of those up tights. Matter of fact, the Axemanis how I weed out, the walk from the talk. If they get the Axeman, we havea beer, watch it do its thing and talk. I they don’t get the Axeman, well I’ll have the extra beer.It’s a little odd thing I couldn’t figure out.Thanks for the help.Frank